Coté

The premise of this book, for most anyone, is painfully boring: planning out and project managing the installation of COTS software. This is mostly lumbering, on-premises ERP applications: those huge, multi-year installs of software that run the back office and systems of record for organizations. While this market is huge, touches almost every company, and has software that is directly or indirectly touched by almost everyone each day (anytime you buy something or interact with a company)…it’s no iPhone.

This post is pretty old and possibly out of date. There’s updates on this topic and more in my book, Monolithic Transformation. Every journey begins with a single step, they say. What they don’t tell you is that you need to pick your step wisely. And there’s also step two, and three, and then all the n + 1 steps. Picking your initial project is important because you’ll be learning the ropes of a new way of developing and running software, and hopefully of running your business.

Make sure to go vote, early if possible! This issue is a round-up of some links and content I’ve been up to since last time. I’ve had the iPhone 7 Plus for several weeks now. I really, really like it. I was afraid it’d be too big, but I think it’d perfect. I just updated to iOS 10.1 which has the “portrait mode.” I’m eager to see how that works; hopefully I can finally take a new headshot photos.

Fall is finally coming to Austin, which means it’s nice and cool. With a long lull in travel, I’ve been working on a second edition of my “cloud native journey” PDF. See a fragment of it below, on outsourcing. Meanwhile, I’m reading through the DevOps Handbook to write a review. Outsourcing and DevOps, it's a problem An excerpt from the second edition of my cloud native journey booklet. This is from the second section where I cover the common questions and “barriers” to doing DevOps/Agile/cloud native/whatever you want to call it.

I cut the below montage-y overview of the history of enterprise open source from a Register piece I’m working on. Here it is! For me, the dawn of enterprise open source was somewhere around 2001 when IBM committed billions of dollars to shoring up Linux. Around this same time, the Eclipse Foundation (also launched by IBM) started it’s IDE market re-rigging, and the Apache Web Server was climbing the hill to market dominance piloting the way for the rest of the Apache Software Foundation.

Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it’s destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk. Also see full show notes.

Apple has put out three new things - the phone, the watch, and the OS - which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it’s destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk. Also see full show notes.

It’s all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it’s software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee…plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets. Also see full show notes.

It’s all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it’s software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee…plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets. Also see full show notes.

I get all ants-in-pants about this whole bi-modal discussion because I feel like it’s a lot of energy spent talking about the wrong things. This came up recently when I was asked about “MVP”, in a way that basically was saying “our stuff is dangerous [oil drilling], so ‘minimal’ sounds like it’d be less safe.” I tried to focus them on the “V” and figure out what “viable” was for their situation.